can be mitigated. The Doctor appears to show sensitivity and resistance to temporal distortions, notably in The Time Monster (1972), Invasion of the Dinosaurs and City of Death (1979) (where Romana does as well). Companion Amelia "Amy" Pond, an apparent human, repeatedly demonstrates an immunity to the effect, which is neither explained nor seemingly even noticed by the Doctor. Adult Amy takes adolescent Amelia's hand and pulls her from danger in the museum in "The Big Bang" (2010). Adult Amy also describes to the Doctor in "Good Night" (2011) her childhood memory of receiving an ice cream from a woman whom she suddenly realizes was herself, and walks out of the TARDIS to buy young Amelia the same ice cream. When Amy aggressively flirts with her approximately one minute older self in "Time" (2011), the Doctor does not warn her not to touch, despite them being mere inches from each other and the Doctor noticing her husband Rory's obvious excitement at the possibilities (the same reaction displayed by their daughter, at the prospect of two simultaneous instances of the Doctor, in both "A Good Man Goes to War" (2011) and "Last Night" (2011)). Conversely, companions Rose Tyler and Sarah Jane Smith are careful not to touch their infant selves in, respectively, "Father's Day" (2005) and The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (2008). The Virgin New Adventures novel Timewyrm: Revelation (1991) by Paul Cornell gave Blinovitch the first name of Aaron (and the title of his book as Temporal Mechanics). The Virgin Missing Adventures novelisation The Ghosts of N-Space (1995) by Barry Letts stated that Blinovitch formulated his principle in the British Museum's reading room in 1928, and although he was not the first to discuss it, he was the first to formulate it properly. In "Kill the Moon", the Doctor mentions that in Courtney Woods's future, before becoming the President of the United States, "she met this bloke called Blinovitch". Popular culture Blinovitch is mentioned a number of times (presumably as an in-joke for Doctor Who viewers) in the romantic comedy Happy Accidents (2000), which has a plot involving time travel. In the film, Blinovitch is said to have been from "Yugoserbia" and discovered how to bend spacetime. Two of his laws are invoked: "Blinovitch's Second Law of Temporal Inertia" apparently states that is impossible to time travel in your own lifetime. One can only time travel to the distant